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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Lets talk about the western canon
 
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Effectronica
May 31, 2011
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Bloom's approach legitimizes critics of the canon, in my opinion, and his approach of stern masturbation as the best way to read seems somewhat wrongheaded to me, but it's hard to argue with his short list, unless you haven't read Neruda or Passoa at all.

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Effectronica
May 31, 2011
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Silver2195 posted:

Bloom himself would actually be the first to disagree: http://www.vice.com/read/harold-bloom-431-v15n12

That's the long list, which is fundamentally flawed as a concept, but the people he focuses on in the book proper are all canonical, though not the sum total (for example Pilgrim's Progress and Faerie Queen are canonical English lit but not in the book)

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Effectronica
May 31, 2011
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Stravinsky posted:

It is on the level of grievance as well as the celebration and derision of virtual worlds that GTA V and "Bleeding Edge" breathe the same air. And bounce on a puff of the zeitgeist.
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